i Like Thursday #456 flowers, good food, yard ornaments, art, the usual
welcome to this week's list of likes starting with another yard ornament, this time on a shed, and I always smile at it. Plus the people that live there have a bulldog.,, who is very engaging and happy.
Hiya! can you see me? I'm a little happy gnome behind the fence
I'm a yard bunny not an ornament!!!
I came out this week, to paint my nails and startled the yard bunny who leapt off the patio, then stopped to see if I'd go away. Since I continued to paint my nails, he sat, then laid down steps from me, then rolled over in the most casual poses...
just like Milo used to do, are you reincarnated already Milo? or did this bunny watch you too?
I LOVE clematis but didn't know it would grow here!
The grocery store delivered two cabbages instead of two heads of lettuce....
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I thought I'd try slaw, which I have never made. I've made a mighty number of dishes and meals in my life, but not being a fan of slaw generally, never made it til now. DH grated it into shreds, grated a carrot to go in and I made the dressing.
I loved it!
I also just love using our big bowls to mix stuff in... a shiny silver bowl! So pretty to use
never content to truly follow a recipe and they are mostly all the same online for slaw, I mixed mayo and greek yogurt, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, white sugar, S & P onion and garlic powder and a bit of dried mustard.
it came out great! I do like a deli salad for sides, and make carrot, potato, 3 bean,. broccoli salads
I scrambled egg whites with cheese tomatoes and chives this week to have egg quesadillas for lunch...
and had eggs left for breakfast later in the week! win win.
as my niece says, if you cooked and don't have leftovers you wasted your time.
(she may have heard that from me)
breakfast of champions
I've been doing index card a day prompts as morning pages... more on saturday's art post, but
I like to paint
I love to sew and finished the quilt top I've been working on (working title Spring leaves)
just a peek, more on Saturday's post
reading
on audio, next one in the Hannah Swenson mystery series by Joanna Fluke
on ebook one of Rhys Bowen's mollie murphy mysteries
Conversation starter this week
Did you go away to sleep=away camp in your youth? Did you like it, or were you homesick, did you learn something new there? How were the other kids and the counselors?
I saw things like that on movies but I never went. The most I did was a 3 day church camp in Florida, with bunk beds and swimming pool were girls and boys had to go at different times. No pants allowed, just skirts, OMgosh it was all uncomfortable. I was afraid I'd walk or talk in my sleep.
as far as camping, it's not my thing. I've done tent camping, with an ex boyfriend, Mr Mountain man, and once as a young social worker, with coworkers, we canoed and camped out and I learned the meaning of chiggers, and had Baileys Irish cream in my morning coffee made over a fire.
Mountain Man was a big outdoors guy, so we camped in Jasper Nat'l park, and near Lake Louise, and other sites. I woke one morning to seeing the tent being pushed in by some disgruntled critter. I had slept in every outfit I took, since I was cold, was out the tent and on top of the concrete picnic table in a flash. I saw an enormous elk pushing the tent with it's antlers, yelled at MM to get. out. now.
He came out and laughed at me.
Undeterred, I insisted on reporting the incident to the park rangers who also laughed at me.
"miss, would you like us to relocate the elk?" bwaaaahahahaha
(some old guy is now telling his side of this tale to grand children)
every time my now husband and I tried to camp it was miserable. At one point our lab-radaughter Chelsea left the campfire went to the door of the camper and whined to just go to bed such as it was, and maybe it would all disappear in the morning.
Please visit these fine folk to see what they liked this week:
Your coleslaw looks dee-lish! I like that big sun yard ornament too, it looks fab on that shed -- really perks it up. I too despise camping -- give me a five-star hotel or I'm not going.
That sun on the wall would make me smile, too - he has a kindly smile! I'm with you and your niece- why cook if there aren't going to be leftovers? Your slaw sounds yummy. I think we'll have that for dinner tonight!
I've never tried to make cole slaw but I'm sure it's way better than what I buy. I love the bunny! We have a few in our yard once in awhile. I never went to summer camp so I didn't comment on in this week.
What a sweet bunny!! As for my reading, I just finished reading First Gentleman last night. By James Patterson & Bill Clinton. I've enjoyed all 3 of the books that they've done together so far.
I went to both sleep-away camp and day camp as a Girl Scout. So much fun and we learned new things every time. I wasn't home sick. But both my girls went to 4-H sleep-away camp as middle school kids. Neither one enjoyed it - which I didn't know until years later.
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Very cute and trusting rabbit.
I have never made coleslaw but I do like it. I think I may give it a try! I was a girl scout ions ago and we did go camping and hiking and I loved it!
Your coleslaw looks dee-lish! I like that big sun yard ornament too, it looks fab on that shed -- really perks it up. I too despise camping -- give me a five-star hotel or I'm not going.
Your camping stories are worth telling. So funny! :-) All the best, Regula
That sun on the wall would make me smile, too - he has a kindly smile! I'm with you and your niece- why cook if there aren't going to be leftovers? Your slaw sounds yummy. I think we'll have that for dinner tonight!
Rob throws raisins in his slaw - it's delicious. That looks like a hot bun!
I've never tried to make cole slaw but I'm sure it's way better than what I buy. I love the bunny! We have a few in our yard once in awhile. I never went to summer camp so I didn't comment on in this week.
Oh my gosh! That puppy eating cabbage is the best!
So beautiful and relaxing. Thank you for including me aloha
Your slaw looks good!
What a sweet bunny!! As for my reading, I just finished reading First Gentleman last night. By James Patterson & Bill Clinton. I've enjoyed all 3 of the books that they've done together so far.
I went to both sleep-away camp and day camp as a Girl Scout. So much fun and we learned new things every time. I wasn't home sick. But both my girls went to 4-H sleep-away camp as middle school kids. Neither one enjoyed it - which I didn't know until years later.
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